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  • noun Plural form of kanone.

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  • East diatyposeis (constitutions, statutes); those concerned with discipline were termed kanones (canons, rules), often with the addition of tes eutaxias (of discipline, or good order).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • (Gk. nomoi, "laws", kanones, "canons"), containing not only ecclesiastical laws but also imperial laws pertaining to the same matters.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Mr. Leaf used to explain the [Greek: kanones] (XIII. 407) as "serving to attach the two ends of the baldrick to the shield"

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • Like the rabbis, again, he suggests definite rules of interpretation which may always be applied [Greek: kanones tês allêgorias]. [

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • Like the rabbis, again, he suggests definite rules of interpretation which may always be applied [Greek: kanones tes allegorias]. [

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910

  • [Footnote: In the interior of some shields, perhaps of all, were two [Greek: kanones] (VIII 193;

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

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